The title is the giveaway to BBC docu "The Life and Times of Count Luchino Visconti," a broad-brush portrait of the aristo Italian director (1906-76) that is more a psychological and cultural picture ...

Italian director Luchino Visconti, who is being feted by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with a three-week tribute, created sumptuous worlds for his tragically flawed characters to inhabit. Most of ...

This is the sixth and concluding part of a series of articles on the 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival, held April 22-May 6. Senso, the 1954 film directed by Luchino Visconti about the ...

On April 15, 1944, in Rome, Fascist soldiers captured Luchino Visconti di Modrone, the Count of Lonate Pozzolo. Since the late thirties, the Count had been a loyal Communist, sheltering party members ...

A new documentary tells the story of how early fame in the Italian director’s Death in Venice became a living nightmare for its teenage star Björn Andrésen Tadzio, played by 15-year-old Swede called ...

“To put your eyes on beauty is to put your eyes on death,” says film director Luchino Visconti in a new documentary from Sweden spotlighting the predatory nature of the celebrity machine. Directed by ...

LUCHINO VISCONTI’S melancholy epic “The Leopard” was grievously misused when it opened in the United States in 1963. The film’s American distributor, 20th Century Fox, clipped its running time to 161 ...

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The Austrian-born Berger was a mainstay of the European arthouse cinema of the 1960s and '70s, celebrated for his enigmatic performances in Luchino Visconti films. Helmut Berger, the Austrian actor ...